From: benjohn@...
Date: 2007-08-23T17:04:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Rope Data Structures

Just a musing on this, but if we want a fast and scalable rope structure
in Ruby (and speed and scalability are the reasons for using a rope, I
believe?), wouldn't it be better (though not quite so much fun) to
simply wrap a c / c++ rope library, rather than implement it from
scratch in Ruby?

Perhaps it'd even be possible to get Ruby's string to switch internal
implementation using some huristics about its size.

Cheers,
  Benjohn